BRISTOL, England & HASSELT, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apitope, the drug discovery and development company focused on treating the underlying cause of autoimmune diseases, today announces that the consortium, led by Apitope, which includes GSK Vaccines, Quintiles and KWS Biotest Limited, has been awarded prestigious Framework Programme 7 (FP7) Health Innovation funding by the European Commission to develop its Graves’ disease therapeutic vaccine, including a Phase I first-in-man study in Graves’ disease patients.